The Bible in Time...

Jesus Found in the Temple - James Tissot - Brooklyn Museum Wiki Commons Images My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 | Read the Bible in a Year Come join us at any time!  Let the words of our mouths, and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable to you, O God, our strength and our salvation. Amen Today’s Reading - 9/26/2019       Day 269 Luke 2:1 – 51 Reflection | Today - Luke’s account of Jesus birth and childhood. At a point in history - Jesus was born in humble means in Bethlehem; Shepherds see angels and then Jesus; Jesus’ circumcision and is named; Simeon sings; Anna sings; Mary and Joseph wonder; went to Nazareth and grew; At 12 - Jesus appears in Temple and mystifies religious leaders; Mary treasured all of these things. Background |  Background by Center of Biblical Studies.   More Luke by Mark Powell Scholars think that Luke was written the end of the 1st century; Luke probably had a copy of Gospel of Mark and ...

Read |    Day 268 | Friday | September 25 | Luke 1: 39-45, 46-56, 57-66, 67-80  Matthew 1: 18-25  Luke 2: 1-7, 8-20, 21-24, 25-35, 36-40  Background | Center for Biblical Studies | Matthew  |  Matthew is the first Gospel in the New Testament, but it was not the first Gospel written. New Testament scholars understand that Mark’s Gospel is older, and Matthew’s Gospel uses some of Mark’s material for writing his account of Jesus’ life; Luke’s Gospel uses Mark as well. There is also likely an even older tradition that Matthew, Mark, and Luke all were familiar with, not to mention various oral traditions. This theory best explains why there is so much overlap between these three Gospels while at the same time there are so many significant differences. Because these three Gospels overlap in wording and content as often as they do, they are called the “synoptic Gospels” (Greek, syn, together with; optic, seeing). John’s Gospel presents Jesus in a different w...